The Sin of Sodom
SODOM: A SIN TO REMEMBER Throughout the years, one city has been the by-word for evil and perversion. She does not exist in present day, nor do her ruins. If ruins do exist somehow, they do so only under hundreds of feet of salt-saturated water in the aptly named “Dead Sea.” Once a fruitful city on the plains of Jordan, this city and her sisters were leveled in a day. One day, the city was alive with life as normal, and the next – fire and sulphur rained from God Himself and blasted the city into the annals of time. But why was this city destroyed? It was for wickedness. But what wickedness exactly? What was Sodom’s sin? Overview of the Text at Hand The account of Genesis 19 records the destruction of the city Sodom, which has long been held as the key passage in the Bible for teaching against homosexuality. Many look back to this passage as conclusive proof that the homosexual lifestyle is condemned. From the name of this city itself even comes a name for the p